Adam Ritchie is the English photographer who shot fantastic live pix of a very early VU gig at the Cafe Bizarre. Back in England, he also shot early live pix of Pink Floyd, and then promptly retired from music photography.

He was a protege of the important '60s counterculture figure John "Hoppy" Hopkins, and a site dedicated to Hoppy's life and work includes both a photo of Ritchie -- shot by Hoppy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival -- and an extensive interview with him. Due to the nature of the site the interview concentrates heavily on Hoppy, but there's plenty in there about Ritchie's own life and career, and he explains how he came to be in such the right places at the right times to capture those images